Rashida Tlaib

We need HUD to make loss mitigation mandatory.

Again, without fully understanding, but she is just devastated.

I was born and raised in Detroit--from more homeowners to renters and so forth, and I think it is a result of a lot of combinations of things that you guys put forward.

Looking for a moment at the coal industry, the recent example which went from King Coal to widespread bankruptcy.

I am not making this stuff up. It is actually happening.

Many energy analysts see a significantly negative performance outlook for the fossil fuel industry in the coming years.

She constantly lives in fear that an explosion or toxic chemical could claim her life.

You're still smoking, ma'am. You're still smoking.

You know, when I was your age, I used to go to restaurants with my parents, and they say, you know, right now, you go, and they say, 'How many people in your group?' When I was little, they said, 'Nonsmoking or smoking section?'

Well, the truth to you is very different for the majority of people in this room who do believe that children are being targeted by----

This is very scary, and as a mom, you know, I hope e-cigarette users are aware of this fact

E-cigarettes were allowed onto the market without fully understanding the long-term effects and without regulation.

As much as e-cigarette companies imply that they are smoking-cessation products, none are approved by the FDA for that purpose.

What about traditional cigarettes? No.

Is it ever safe for kids or young adults to use e-cigarettes? No.

In practice, I truly believe that we've become testing ground, the American public, most disturbingly our American youth.

Earlier this month, my home state of Michigan became the first to ban flavored e-cigarettes.

Yet, that they are deprived of having their elected officials vote in Congress, one of the most fundamental principles underlining our Constitution.

No taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation is tyranny.'

Transformative change doesn't happen because it starts in the halls of Congress. It happens because of movement work

I feel in many ways all the residents of the Washington D.C. area--in the District of Columbia are being denied access to that representation.

One of the things that we constantly talk about is no taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation is tyranny.'

Most of what we are going to be able to do, not only fighting to restore the Civil Rights Act, to be able to challenge a lot of the injustice that we see in the courts...

So just know that all of your work is so important, and it is this partnership, this kind of level of partnership that is going to be able to get us transformative change for all of us in our communities.

It helps elevate the work that we are doing on a national level if you are holding corporate polluters here locally accountable.